Liudmila Selenskaya
When we approached the reliquary, I bowed, and Alyosha followed suit. Then he embraced the reliquary and sat there, relaxed, for about five minutes. After that day, things started to get better.
His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, supports the recent statements from President Vladimir Putin in favor of the traditional understanding of the family as the union of a man and a woman.
Fr. Claudiu is himself the father of several children, and seeing how much joy he received from his family, his thoughts went to abandoned children, whom he then started visiting in hospitals and in children’s homes. He suffered days and nights of turmoil, wondering how he could help them, and he prayed to God to light his path.
The shelter is funded by donations from concerned citizens, as well as grant competitions, including the Orthodox Initiative, which has led to the creation and expansion of such centers throughout the country.
Andrei Gorbachev
“I am disappointed in human beings,” was the first thing I heard, when I answered the phone call from a priest I knew. This priest was a father of five, a quiet and collected person, who was no stranger to moderate and appropriate humor and absolutely averse to melodrama.